It won’t impact you at all if you don’t submit anything until after you’re accepted, if you choose to submit at all. Why are you worrying about submitting now anyway? As @RichInPitt said, you’re a sophomore. Don’t lose any sleep over this.
Yeah true. Thank you for the clarification, I will just try my hardest and hopefully get an alright score. If anything, I will just not give it to the college. Thank you again!
Great yeah thank you! I will just try to get the best score I can. Thank you!
Colleges review applications in context. The question is not how many APs did you take, but how many APs does your high school offer, and how many of those did you take? If you want to get into a top school like MIT you have to max out on APs. You didn’t hear this from me, but that may be easier if you move to a neighborhood where the high school offers fewer APs.
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UC admissions directors stressed that they evaluated students in the context of their own schools and communities to assess how much they challenged themselves and took advantage of available opportunities. A student who took all six AP classes offered at her school might be more impressive than the one who took six at a school that offered twice as many.
A campus might admit a student with a 4.0 GPA who ranked at the top of an underserved school over one with a higher GPA but lower class rank at a more high-achieving school.
Some parents move to areas with better schools in order to give their kids an advantage. This may seem like a sensible thing to do, but because of the weird admissions process in US colleges, this may actually work against the kid. It make make more sense to move to an area where the kid can stand out, where schools offer fewer AP courses, and where the same accomplishment is considered to be a bigger deal.
I’d disagree - but I get the premise.
I’d rather my kid have available to them as much as possible -they deserve the best I can give.
If my kid lost out because of it, it would stink - but I’d do it again.
But I do understand the premise you brought up.
UGA is a neat school - they don’t use any bias. Everyone is the same. Perhaps that’s politically incorrect because some kids have inherent advantages over others in access - as we’re discussing here - but from an admission POV, it’s an even playing field.
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I would say if you get anything 3 or higher you should submit the score. It looks worse to leave the space blank than to submit a 3 IMO. Also if you are a good student and have mostly 5s with one or two exceptions (especially in subjects you don’t plan to major in) it should not give you a huge disadvantage.
The OP has an easy out, they technically don’t even know what schools they will be applying for yet. They’re a sophomore. Once they’ve taken all the tests, after they are accepted, they can submit to the school school they want to attend.
Please read the linked article from MIT admissions. It clearly states that AP scores are not considered at all in their admissions process.
NOTE: I meant that as an open reply to the thread, but hit the reply to another poster. Doh! 
Alright yeah, I will probably do that. Hopefully, I get something decent, Thank you for the response!
Yeah you are right, I do not know exactly, I know some of my matches and a couple reaches, but the college list is still getting built up. Toward the end of the Junior year I will know mostly what I want to do college-wise and then act accordingly. And thank you for the link! I read it, seems like there are other more important parts of the application that they consider more.
Thank you for all the insights!
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